Dr Nikki Kiyimba

Dr Kiyimba joined the Department of Social and Political Science as Programme Leader for the Msc in in Therapeutic Practice for Psychological Trauma in September 2014 and also continues to work part time as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist.

Qualifications

D ClinPsy Clinical Psychology (Leicester University)

PhD Discursive Psychology (Loughborough University)

BSc (Hons) Social Psychology (Loughborough University).

Overview

Dr Nikki Kiyimba is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for MSc in Therapeutic Practice for Psychological Trauma. Nikki is also a lecturer and supervisor on the DProf Counselling/Psychological Trauma. She has been working as aClinical Psychologist within the NHS for a number of years with a particular interest in working with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems, including personality disorder, psychosis, childhood trauma, dissociative disorders and PTSD.

She works using TF-CBT, EMDR, DBT, Mindfulness, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, ACT, CFT and BRIEF solution-focused therapy. Nikki is also trained in EFT, Hypnosis, Access Bars, Reiki and Regression therapy and has a particular interest in working holistically with clients.

Teaching

Nikki teaches across several of the modules on the Therapeutic Practice and the Psychological Trauma Masters courses, as well as having teaching input onto the DProf programme. She also supervises both PhD and MSc dissertation students.

Current PhD/DProf Dissertations

Marian Crowley: “The Silencing of Self: Living Without Memory – The Experience of Dissociative Amnesia”.

O'Reilly, M., Kiyimba, N., & Karim, K. (2016). “This is a question we have to ask everyone”: asking young people about self‐harm and suicide. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 23(8), 479-488.

O'Reilly, M. & Parker, N. (2013) 'You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink': Exploring children's engagement and resistance in family therapy. Contemporary Family Therapy, 35(3), 491-507.

Parker, N. & O'Reilly, M. (2012). ‘Gossiping' as a social action in family therapy: The pseudo-absence and pseudo-presence of children. Discourse Studies, 14 (6) 1-19.

O'Reilly, M. & Parker, N. (2012) "She needs a smack in the gob": negotiating what is appropriate talk in front of children in family therapy. Journal of Family Therapy doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00595.

O’Reilly, M., Karim, K., & Parker, N. (2013). “So when you ↓said that you were going to take a knife to yourself (0.99). Yeah (1.15) what were you ↓hoping would happen?”: an exploration of ‘you said’ questions in clinical encounters. Paper presented at ‘CA and Psychotherapy’ July conference. York: University of York.

O'Reilly, M., Parker, N., Stafford, V., & Karim, K. (2012). "I think the University is doing some project": The challenge of convincing the NHS of the value of CA. Paper presented at 'Discourse, communication, conversation: An anniversary conference' March Conference. Loughborough: Loughborough University.